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Introduction A. Preliminaries Welcome: Please turn with me in your Bibles to the 6th Chapter of Ephesians, beginning in verse 10. Our text this morning will be verses 18 thru 20, but we will—for the sake of context read through verses 10-17 one last time today. This will conclude our focus on the armor…

Those who compiled the scriptures into the Bible as we now have it today, felt that the Lord’s prayer needed something more. It needed an ending - a fitting conclusion to the prayer. The prayer needed a doxology, a crescendo, a satisfying conclusion. And so, this extra line is a sort of reprise of the earlier themes of the prayer. It is very important that we begin to pray be focusing on God, his attributes and how they impact our reality, but it is also fitting to end our prayer with the same realization.

Solomon tells us we should enjoy the gifts of God while they last, and rely on Him to provide. Only He can save us, and we must in all things resist the temptation to wrestle control from Him. His gift of salvation is free, and our response is to thank Him and enjoy Him!